Free trade with our friends, absolutely. With our enemies? Not so much

Open this photo in gallery: Trucks drive at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 19, 2020.ALY SONG/Reuters Trade was not an issue with the Soviet Union. Western leaders did not have to take into account the effects of their security policies on trade with the USSR, or of trade policy on security. Because there was no trade with the USSR, or none to speak of: Soviet leaders were not only at the helm of a totalitarian dictatorship, but practitioners of communism, including a closed economy, at least to the capitalist world. Trade with the USSR never…